Hacker News with Generative AI: Interviews

Interview with Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower (youtube.com)
Takehomes and Algos Are Both Evil – and Other Lessons from 1000 SWE Interviews (gmfoster.com)
I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time and mental energy on recruiting top software engineers—first as an IC interviewing at Airbnb, and later while founding Graphite. Over the last few years, Graphite’s grown to around thirty people and continues to scale. This means I’ve coordinated and run interviews for 1,000+ candidates, primarily full-stack software engineers.
Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan [video] (youtube.com)
Lex Fridman Interviews Volodymyr Zelenskyy (lexfridman.com)
I hope the Kyiv Airport will open soon, then it will be easier to fly in.
Oral History of Jim Keller [video] (youtube.com)
Building Anthropic: A conversation with our co-founders [video] (youtube.com)
Half My Life with Perl (perladvent.org)
I had never met Randal Schwartz before, but when I reached out to him about contributing to year 25 of the Perl Advent Calendar, he immediately agreed.
Pat Gelsinger and Linus Torvalds talk Linux, open source, technology and more [video] (youtube.com)
Nvidia's Unique History and Culture (asianometry.com)
I am excited to present an interview with Tae Kim, author of the ”Nvidia Way”. A new book coming out on Tuesday Dec 10th in the US. I really enjoyed this book. You got to read it. It goes by fast and is hands-down the best history on Nvidia’s rise and its astounding culture.
An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987) (timhulsizer.com)
When Calvin and Hobbes hit the nation's funny pages in late 1985, it took everybody by surprise.
Interview with Dr. Ken Iverson (1982) (arraycast.com)
In 1982, journalist Whitney Smith sat down and talked to Dr. Ken Iverson about a variety of topics. From sentient computers to education. Iverson's perception is far-reaching and accurate regarding many of the technological situations we find ourselves in today.
Unix Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
The worst problems occur when people walk into their office and—without warning—find technology they never asked for.
Interview of Robert Shingledecker, Tiny Core Linux and DSL Developer (2009) (distrowatch.com)
Welcome to this year's 12th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! This week we interview Robert Shingledecker, a former Damn Small Linux developer and now founder of Tiny Core Linux, a new mini-distribution and probably the smallest desktop live CD ever created.
Interview with gwern (dwarkeshpatel.com)
Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you've read his blog, you know he's one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive.
Project: Verdad – tracking misinformation in radio broadcasts using Gemini 1.5 (simonwillison.net)
I’m starting a new interview series called Project. The idea is to interview people who are building interesting data projects and talk about what they’ve built, how they built it, and what they learned along the way.
A sit-down with Ubuntu founder Mark 'SABDFL' Shuttleworth (theregister.com)
Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke to The Reg FOSS desk at Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague about the Linux distribution's success, its missteps, his regrets, and what he'd tell his younger self.
Money was never the end goal – mrdoob – threejs creator (twitter.com)
Steve Sims Interview on Soft White Underbelly [video] (youtube.com)
Interview gone wrong (ashu1461.com)
I have a very basic question which I usually ask in a interview which is to implement a tic tac toe game. I like this because the logic is straightforward and it helps to judge things like code quality / speed / conciseness etc.
The Crisis in String Theory Is Worse Than You Think (math.columbia.edu)
Curt Jaimungal has a piece out, an interview with Lenny Susskind, with the title The Crisis in String Theory is Worse Than You Think…. Some of what Susskind has to say is the same as in his recent podcast with Lawrence Krauss (discussed here). These days, Susskind sometimes sounds like Peter Woit:
Ask HN: How to tell legitimate consulting interview opportuities from scams? (ycombinator.com)
I've been getting a ton of interview requests from "expert insight" companies asking to pay me anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars for an hour long interview, as I have "expertise" that make me a good fit for it.
James Cameron on AI, robotics, and ethics [video] (youtube.com)
Ask HN: Do you have trouble recalling what you've contributed at your job? (ycombinator.com)
I find that I really struggle to remember what I’ve done specifically before the current task I’m working on. Then I go through my tickets and I start remembering, but off the top of my head it’s pretty blank.<p>Makes me nervous about getting fired and having nothing to talk about in interviews. I should probably be writing things down as I do them.
An interview with someone who left Effective Altruism (mathbabe.org)
C: Tell me a little bit about your college experience. How did you get interested in this work originally?
David Lynch Interview Project (youtube.com)
Oral History of Jim Keller [video] (youtube.com)
Oral history of Jim Keller - Computer History Museum [video] (youtube.com)
Swift Creator Chris Lattner on Mojo and Roc (youtube.com)
Interview with Terence Tao in Barcelona (elpais.com)
It’s not good for something as important as AI to be a monopoly controlled by one or two companies, but the basic technology to build these AIs is fairly public.
Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell: "Revenge of the Tipping Point" (davidepstein.substack.com)
Twenty-five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell published his first book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference. Two people came to the first stop on his book tour: a stranger, and the mother of one of his friends.